Consciousness is the First Step to a Happy Life!
Many of us have felt the effects of strong astrological configurations. All designed to wake us up, to help us make necessary changes. To inspire us to rise to our higher selves. Even if you don’t put much energy into astrology, no one doubts the power of the moon to affect the tides. All of the planets exert their energies in similar manner when they are in various relationships to each other. Creating tensions and releases, ebbs, and flows that are in turn felt by us, either subtly or palpably.
Becoming More Conscious
It is undeniable that life brings us many changes, most of them unpredicted. The best we can do within life’s inevitable unpredictability is to approach each moment with an eye to personal growth and evolution. We are on this earth to learn… about ourselves and others. As we learn, we reduce our egos, becoming more conscious, less judgmental, and more compassionate. With the increase of awareness, we then are more able to identify the sources of stress and tension that so often keep us from realizing our highest potential.
Identifying Our Feeling Bodies
I truly believe that the greatest source of stress is the desire to please. Also, adapt to what others deem correct and true. How often are we adjusting our thinking and behavior to comply with our parents, our lovers, our friends, our religion, our culture…
Without feeling what this might mean to our own souls? When we can learn to identify our “feeling” bodies in order to sense on the deepest levels what feels right to us. We start to honor our own uniqueness and make less compromise. Once we live in harmony and alignment with our unique selves, we lose the stress of conformity when it goes against our nature.
Celebrating Your Uniqueness
I say, celebrate your uniqueness! Express your wild colors, your desire to dance, sing, make art, explode with ideas, laugh whenever you feel to, and speak your truth! When all of this is applied with kindness and respect for others, we are observing the greatest kindness and respect to ourselves by living fully who we are. And this is not only the key to health, but the key to the fullest kind of communication and expression. It is our uniqueness and the uniqueness of others that creates the greatest delight in sharing, learning, growing, and appreciating. It is in the expression our uniqueness and the appreciation of the uniqueness of others that allows us all to move forward without fear.
Liberate Yourself from Others’ Expectations
Expression, when deprived, breeds repression. Repression breeds stress. Stress breeds lack of ease. Lack of ease breeds dis-ease. And the rest is understood. Choose to liberate yourself from others’ expectations in order to find your true voice. Celebrate yourself and others will delight in your magic and individuality. Make a decision to fearlessly move ahead and you will free others as they see what joy it brings. This is one of the most beautiful gifts you can give to the world.
Michele Kadison is the creator of Body Activation, a healing fitness technique that transforms the body from the inside out.
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